Whorf claimed that they didn't have any words for time – no direct translation for the noun time itself, no grammatical constructions indicating the past or future – and therefore could not conceive of it.
In Arabic, for instance, the one-vowel stem formed from the root √ktb indicates the present tense (ya-ktub-u '[he] writes'), while the two-vowel shape indicates the past tense (katab-a '[he] wrote').
Shortly before rolling into the bay, Curiosity identified conglomerates containing small rounded clasts, or pebbles, indicating the past presence of fast running water, most likely in a network of streams.
A standard questionnaire indicated the past and present personal histories of cough, phlegm, physician-diagnosed asthma, wheezing, and dyspnea[ 15].
The RESites are sequences that are homologous to TE-bearing sequences but lack the TE insertion, which indicates the past movement of TEs and their TSD sequences [ 25].
A few flowering tips are a sign of a healthy plant, but too many flowers indicate the plant may be past its peak and turning bitter.
Odds ratios (OR) and their 95% confidence interval (95% CI) were estimated to indicate the probability of past DENV infection for each group as compared with a referent.
More than 90 percent of rapes this year involved acquaintances or relatives, which "would seem to indicate that the past reluctance of victims to report relatives or date rapes is giving way to willingness of victims to report," he said.
This could indicate the continuing effect of past availability of CLM that possibly discouraged past couple formation.
